Extract from the ‘Tide of the Red Sands’ by Solin De’Teinde.
The Rust Desert comprises mainly of sand formed from metal oxides. There is a tale of ancient times when the race of humans were a powerful people and dominated the world. A cataclysm of astronomic proportions changed this world forever. The tale in brief tells of a world completely covered in a gleaming metal city, not a single tree grew in the open, not one drop of open water was to be found below the sky. The whole surface of the world was one gigantic creation of human kind, the planetary wide city reputed to have been called Ferma Monopolis. The cataclysm that almost destroyed the humans also totally removed the great city from the face of the planet. The story describes how human kind in their arrogance fought a war against one another using weapons of immense power. Weapons of mass destruction that could destroy whole continents, in this way they destroyed themselves on a whim. But not totally. A few survived but they were enough to rebuild and continue the race of humans. These few survivors sought refuge deep in the world’s underground places and when after millennia and countless generations had passed, their thoughts eventually turned once more to the world above. They sought to regain once more the surface of the world. When they got there they found that nature had also survived against all odds. The world was once again dominated by natural beauty, the water now released, had once more formed great oceans. The world was returning to its former glory, its created truth.
Into this world the human race was reborn and survived by learning about the environment and instead of destroying it, working with it in harmony. The only reminder of past mistakes was the Rust Desert, said to be the sterile, oxidised remnant of Ferma Monopolis, left by the Maker as a reminder to human kind of their former folly.